If the modern world runs on the attention economy, are we simply fuel for its fires? If the modern world runs on the attention economy, can we win by reclaiming our attention spans? In this episode, Nishant recounts his experience at the prestigious Aspen Ideas Festival, where he shared his Big Idea to save the world - a cheap sketchbook and a pen.

📚 Make (Sneaky) Art is now out in bookstores and available online. Grab your copy: https://geni.us/makesneakyart.

🎟️ Find Nishant on the SneakyArt Book Tour: https://www.sneakyartist.com/book-tour

✍🏼 [Read] How to Break out of Social Media Prison

✍🏼 [Read] Impressions from Aspen Ideas Festival

✍🏼 [Read] Working with a publisher when you only like working alone

✍🏼 [Read] On pub day, a mild existential crisis appears.

New York-based artist and author Samantha Dion Baker introduces her latest book - Draw your Adventures.

What are good ways to think of the word ‘adventure’? Does it always need to be an exotic, foreign location? Sam and Nishant discuss ways to craft a personal definition of adventure, free of other people (plus social media) opinions.

Then big questions creep in! If all knowledge already exists on YouTube, what really is the job of the how-to book? If artists are self-driven, why do we benefit so much from community? Also, are disembodied hands easier to draw than hands attached to their people?

BONUS: Sam offers advice for first-time authors (like Nishant!) to deal with the anxiety of expectations.

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🎨 Check out Sam’s exciting new “Write and Draw” workshop in Brooklyn

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🎟️ Meet Nishant on the SneakyArt Book Tour

🎙️ Listen to Sam & Nishant’s first conversation in Ep 52 of the show

After a near 2-year hiatus, the SneakyArt Podcast is BACK with fresh ideas, new perspectives, and the same opening music. (Yay!)

In this quick update:

• Why Nishant stopped and three reasons he decided to resume the show
• How podcasts are a special thing in the wasteland of the dead internet
• The show remains the same … but also not?
• Two book recommendations - Ways of Seeing by John Berger, The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel.
• In lieu of optimized monetization funnels, directly support Nishant’s crazy/stupid path of independent art: Buy Me a Coffee
• Buy Nishant’s book - Make (Sneaky) Art.
• Old listeners, new listeners, and super listeners, share what you like about the show - nishant[at]sneakyartist[dot]com.

New York-based cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield talks about how the business of being an artist has changed over the last two decades. This episode is full of essential advice and our best ideas about sustaining an independent creative career. It is the conclusion of the conversation from Ep 67.

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New York-based cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield speaks about taking over Australia’s iconic daily comic strip, Ginger Meggs, at the tender age of 23, and how he sees the path ahead for syndicated comic strips and the newspaper industry.

Other topics include - the evolution of humour over time, not doing political comedy, Derrida, and people-watching at the MoMA. Big stuff. Also, the difference between meme-ification and mummification.

This is the first episode of a two-part conversation.

💡 For all the good links and ideas from this episode, to see the cheatsheet of this conversation, check out the shownotes.

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London-based educator, artist and author Jeff Schmidt, speaks about his book “Heart Attack - Finding hope, joy and inspiration in adversity”. This conversation is about the big and small things that can transform our life in unexpected ways, and Jeff’s resolution to live inspired - by making room for the things that bring joy to his life.

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California-based illustrator Nina Khashchina shares the experience of daily video calls with her parents in Kharkiv, after Ukraine was invaded and the bombs fell everyday. She speaks about recommitting to the Ukrainian language as part of her war effort. A wild book list appears.

This is the second of a two-part conversation.

🎙 Listen to the first part, Ep 64 Growing up in Ukraine w Nina Khaschina.

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California-based illustrator Nina Khashchina speaks about her childhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, growing up in the former USSR, her lifelong journey with art, and how she documents her life through sketchbooks. . This is the first of a two-part conversation.

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Cincinatti-based Christina Wald speaks about how to live and thrive as an independent artist and illustrator. They discuss Kickstarter, Patreon, and ways to keep the creative process at the heart of your practice, and the creator in the economy. This episode is the second part of the conversation from Ep 62.

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Cincinatti-based Christina Wald speaks about how to live as, and making a living from, being an independent artist and illustrator.

This is a conversation about how to work for yourself while meeting client expectations. It is about Christina’s multiple successful Kickstarter projects, including her latest book (link below).

This episode is for anyone eager to chart their own path as an independent creator. Lots of practical advice, listen carefully!

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📚 Buy Sketching Here & Everywhere: My Sketching Obsession by Christina Wald.

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